Stanley won't make USC Saturday

By Phil Kornblut

USC's junior day list Saturday won't include one of their top targets, OL Donnell Stanley of Latta. His mentor Chris German said he (German) has family coming to town this weekend and won't be able to transport Stanley to Columbia. Stanley will attend USC's spring game and may make it in for a spring practice. His last visit was to North Carolina for their junior day and the Duke basketball game earlier this month. He plans to make a return trip to UNC during his spring break. He won't make it back up to Clemson until the summer according to German. Right now Stanley is concentrating on his baseball season. Marshall and Mississippi State are his two most recent offers.

OL Parker Boudreaux of Orlando reports an amazing total of over 70 offers at this point. About 15 of those programs have separated from the pack and Clemson is firmly in that group. Boudreaux visited Clemson last season for the North Carolina game and raved about the experience. He is returning this Saturday for a junior day and will bring...

OL Luke Elder of LaGrange, GA holds offers from about 15 schools including USC and Clemson. Some of his other offers are Ole Miss, Cal, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Missouri, Florida State and Vanderbilt. He doesn't yet have favorites but he plans to formulate a top 10 or in the near future, and he...

Clemson holds its second junior day for the 2016 recruiting season this Saturday and one of the invitees is Bamberg-Ehrhardt OL Drew Wilson (6-4 290). Clemson has had a lot of success attracting top talent from the Red Raiders' program over the years and Wilson is another drawing the Tigers' interest according to assistant coach and recruiting...

OL John Simpson of Fort Dorchester won his first 4A heavyweight wrestling championship over the weekend. His wrestling season limited the amount of football recruiting travel he could get in over the past couple of months, but Simpson is ready to move forward with that now.

AC Flora WR Denzel Johnson made more improvement on his last ACT and according to his coach should be qualified at the end of May as long as there’s no slippage in his regular grades. And that possibly will mean Johnson suiting up for Clemson this fall.